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2026 Exhibitors


Seattle Art Book Fair will host 85+ local, national, and international artists, designers, and organizations. See below for the full lineup and descriptions!

Photo courtesy Florence Liu

2026 Exhibitors


51 Personae
Shanghai
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51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of "realism" in art as expressive actions.

A Liang Chan
NYC
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A Liang Chan is an artist based in NYC whose work spans illustration, zines and art books, comics, and risograph prints. They are interested in dreams, hauntings, and anything that feels like a strange hum in the back of your head.

A. T. Pratt
NYC
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A. T. Pratt is a multidisciplinary artist, cartoonist, self-publisher, professor and paper engineer from NYC. His publications often include special features like pop-ups, foldouts, and innovative binding techniques.

Active Chapter
Brooklyn
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Active Chapter is a queer Asian American artist collective that believes in publishing across mediums. Our work is split into markets, publications, and community organizing. We published three art books in the last year, Edition 0: Confessions of Love, In the Mood for Love: an anthology of stories from chinatown, and Edition 1: Perverts. We also put out Trans Opinions Periodically, a monthly zine publication that is distributed around New York City. Active Chapter was founded in September 2024.

Adelaide Blair
Seattle
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Adelaide Blair is a Seattle-based artist, writer, and curator who has been making books/zines/comics since 1986 and has recently started publishing works by other writers and artists. Her alter ego is The Pacific Northwest Conceptual Art Center (a conceptual art project), and she publishes one book a year under that imprint.

afterhours
Seattle
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afterhours is all about getting comfy, making, experimentation and play. I work out of the CAM Printshop and a lot of my design, photography and collage work is showcased in a zine format, letting me explore different ways of binding and printing methods and sharing my pov in the work.

Alder & Frankia / Impractical Labor (ILSSA)
Storrs Mansfield
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Alder & Frankia (est. 2016) publishes new collaborations and reissues from feminist archives. Impractical Labor (ILSSA, est. 2008) is a union for reflective creative practice, publishing contemplative tools and resources to improve the immaterial working conditions of art workers.

Amalgam
Providence
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Amalgam is an independent press and journal that interrogates contemporary discourses at the confluence of typography, language, and power, advancing transdisciplinary projects anchored in rigorous thematic investigations.

Audrey di Girolamo, Sharon Chen, Vivian Cho
Seattle
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Audrey di Girolamo, Sharon Chen, and Vivian Cho are Seattle-based designers, interested in the exploration of physical print media and its intersection with experience and storytelling. The three see publishing and books as a site of experimentation with form, medium, and material, as well as their interdisciplinary design practices.

Awkward Ladies Club
Alameda
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Amy Burek is a California-based artist whose work explores how science and technology shape the way we understand and engage with the world around us. Her publishing imprint Awkward Ladies Club focuses on memoir, knowledge-sharing, and other non-fiction works. Books are also a family affair, with the addition of new projects with her collaborator Mo (age 8). Amy is a co-founder of Chute Studio, a collaborative Risograph studio in Oakland, CA, and a former organizer of San Francisco Zine Fest.

BearBear
Milwaukee
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Artists Diana H. Chu and Benjamin Grzenia launched BearBear as a self-publishing Risograph studio in Milwaukee, WI. BearBear celebrates the intersection between what we put on our tables, where we call home, and who we gather with. We've been gettin' cozy since 2019.

Benschop Books
Denver
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Benschop Books publishes unique, handmade editions of photography books and zines. Designed and made by photographer and book artist Vera Benschop, Benschop Books aims to make book formats that are in harmony with their contents, and experiment with what is considered a "book".

Berm
Portland
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Berm is a contemporary arts magazine based in Portland, OR. Published twice a year, each issue of Berm uses a different theme to explore ideas and trends in the contemporary arts world. We work to publish a diverse range of new work from emerging and established artists.

Boris&Boris&Ellis
Seattle
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The designers behind B&B&E have been SABF participants since 2023. Ellis, designer and illustrator, will be showcasing a second volume of his zine series: Ghost Signs of Seattle. Boris&Boris is a design duo comprised of designers Victoria Hannah and Ovi Johnson. Their work explores brutalism as a playground for satire—recasting its severity through concrete children’s toys, and angular pinup catalogs. In 2025, their project Brutalism For Baby was added to UW’s Special Collections for art books.

Brandon Vosika
Seattle
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Brandon Vosika is a self taught multidisciplinary artist from Seattle. He specializes in painting, with a particular interest in merging traditional 2D methods with 3D sculpture, woodworking and book making. He has created over 25 different small run, entirely handmade editions with titles such as "Believe In Your Dreams", "All My Bad Ideas" and "How To Be A Good Ghost". He says about them "I like to think of them almost as greeting cards with many pages. Something to say hello."

Broccoli
Portland
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Broccoli is a publisher of unusual delights known for making captivating works in print. We create an array of collectible niche magazines, art books, and printed goods, all designed to spark curiosity and foster new communities.

Cactus Press Zines
Bellingham
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Cactus Press is the zine practice of Cameron Reeder. It serves as a self-publishing method for my own photography, and has grown to include my graphic design and artwork, as well as the work of friends. Since launching at the SABF in 2025, I've exhibited at multiple fairs + fests and published more photo zines!

Chin Music Press
Seattle
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A curiously bibliophilic publisher located in Seattle's Pike Place Market

Common Area Maintenance
Seattle
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Common Area Maintenance (CAM) is an artist led nonprofit in downtown Seattle. We operate art studios, a Risograph print shop, woodshop, bookstore, and performance space, supporting artists and cultural workers through collective resources, and public programming. We host workshops, exhibitions, and public gatherings year-round while developing affordable housing and cultural infrastructure for artists and nonprofit partners. Come spend time with us and let’s keep making this city amazing!

Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University: Design department
Seattle
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Every publication is a wild experiment—half playground, half protest. Our writers, illustrators, designers, and curious makers use print and digital craft for joyful disruption. We collage, remix, screen-print, Risograph, photocopy, and share it all. Students and faculty hit publication fairs like a tiny traveling circus, keeping conversations alive with anyone who knows books and zines are still the coolest way to shout something true.

Curious Publishing
Upland
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Curious Publishing is Non-Profit 501(c)3 Organization, and is 100% artist owned and operated since 2017. We tell the stories of artists of all practices who reside throughout San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and the High Desert Communities through one of a kind, small-run artbooks designed and printed in Southern California. We aim to celebrate the rich diaspora of Inland Empire, Womxn, BIPOC and Queer Artists first and foremost.

D.R.Y.
Oakland
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D.R.Y. comprises Daniel Zhou, Raul Higuera, and Yasmeen Abedifard, all Bay Area-based comic artists. They make comics, zines, screen & riso prints, hand made apparel, and plenty of mistakes.

Daniel R. Smith
Seattle
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Daniel R. Smith is a Seattle-based artist, curator, graphic designer. He has produced two artists books in collaboration with poets—"Fire Knife" and "Mortal Salt"—and several exhibition catalogs for his curatorial projects, including "Thunderbitch: Women Graphic Designers in NW Rock." He received SABF’s Page Turner Fellowship in 2025. His work is in the collections of Seattle City Light, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, MoPop, SF MoMA, Emory University, Yale University, University of Washington.

Daria Tessler
Portland
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I made my 1st zine in highschool in the 90s, my 1st minicomic around 2000, and have been making art books and comics ever since. I self publish and have books published by Perfectly Acceptable Press, Fantagraphics and Floating World Comics.

Desuetude/Pilot Press
Olympia
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Desuetude Press is the independent publishing house of Marmo Gallery. Working at the intersection of art, poetry, critical theory, and prose, Desuetude Press explores the possibilities offered by expanding the definition of the artist book and countering dominant narratives in order to consider unique perspectives. Pilot Press is a publishing house based in Olympia. Pilot Press produces artist monographs and a local arts journal (Pilot Magazine) which is distributed by Marmo Gallery.

Each and Every
Detroit
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Each and Every Press is an independent Risograph press focused on the production of experimental publications made in collaboration with emerging artists. These include a modular booklet that traces an anecdote passed between ceramicists about how roof tile used to be shaped to the hand of the workers making it, a book that follows an artist's thoughts in and out of the studio through cell phone photos of her walks, and an unbound series of prints featuring virtual objects created by feeding reality TV show Love Island into 3D modeling software. Run by artists Rosa Glaessner Novak and Brendan Page, work from the press often focuses on using the Risograph to work with nontraditional subject matter, materials, and processes and combining ceramic practice with print.

Ediciones Concordia Mx
Querétaro
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Ediciones Concordia Mx is an independent screen printed art book press run by Mexican artists LD Morán and Nando Murio. We started working together in 2019, focusing on the unlimited possibilities of image creation, material exploration, and handmade books. At Concordia our primary goal is to keep the screen printing method innovative and foster ideas that are suited for the medium.

Empress Editions
Cleveland
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Empress Editions collaborates with artists to publish risograph and screen printed artist books, zines, and prints.

Erika Rier
Portland
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I've been making zines, artist books, and handmade comic books for 34 years. I started making photocopied riot grrrrl zines in the 90s, handbound poetry books in the early 2000s, and the past 20 years I've been making increasingly complicated artist zines and comics featuring hand-cut pages, fold-outs, and pop-ups. My work is mainly focused on the marginalization of the feminine perspective, using visual narratives I seek to tell stories that resonate with people regardless of gender.

EVERYTHING IS SO MUCH
Portland
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EVERYTHING IS SO MUCH is a feeling and a means. a sometimes press run by jakelen diaz exploring various print methods and forms.

Everything Matters
Portland
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EVERYTHING MATTERS is a small publishing project specializing in Risograph printed, small edition chapbooks and prints. We're a small group of friends, academics, and print nerds who are obsessed with books, and in particular the capacities of riso-printed artist books as a urgent contemporary medium for distributing works and words that cannot be held so well by other spaces.

For the Birds Trapped in Airports
Mendocino
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We are a publishing imprint, bindery, and space where learning happens. We provide resources and guidance for those designing, making and publishing books. In Fall of 2026, we will expand our offerings to include residencies at our new location in Mendocino, California. Our business efforts, while diverse, are all inspired by what can be learned and gained from understanding the labor and conditions in books and publishing.
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Foreshadow Publishing Group
New Jersey
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Foreshadow, signifying a pursuit of subtle clues beneath the surface, is a publishing group co-founded by two Chinese visual practitioners. We integrate fiction, non-fiction, graphic design, and illustration to explore social issues, feminism, folklore, and personal histories, translating these inquiries into meticulous, tactile printed matter.

Girl Noise Press
Seattle
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Girl Noise Press is a Seattle-based independent publisher committed to amplifying distinctive, risk-taking voices. Rooted in the spirit of bedroom culture, we champion work that is intimate, unapologetic, and inventive — made from the private, unfiltered space where creative expression thrives. In addition to publishing, we create stationery designed to spark ideas — tactile, beautiful objects that invite creativity.

Grey Zone Press & Friends
Seattle
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Grey Zone Press is the imprint of artist Ellen Sollod. Her unique and small edition artist books are in collections nationwide, including Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, NYPL Spencer Collection, Yale, and Savannah College of Art and Design. Friends Lisa Ahlberg and Constance Brinkley make small edition photo books and zines. Lisa’s often capture intimate portraits and still lifes while Constance’s embrace street photography with a sense of irony and humor.
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Half Letter Press / Temporary Services
Chicago / Fort Wayne
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Half Letter Press is a publishing imprint and online store initiated by the group Temporary Services (Brett Bloom & Marc Fischer). We are based in Chicago, IL and Fort Wayne, IN. We have published books and booklets as an element of our collaborative work since 1998. Half Letter Press also distributes the work of our solo presses Public Collectors (run by Marc) and Breakdown Break Down Press (published by Brett).

Heather Corcoran
St. Louis
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Heather Corcoran is a designer and a writer. She makes books, posters, and maps. Many of her personal essays involve looking closely at a place.

Hecate Press
Richmond
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Hecate Press is the publishing project of Aya Khalife, Rasim Bayramov and Molly Garrett, bringing cultural viewpoints from Lebanon, Azerbaijan and the United States with a feminist and queer lens.

Historical Seditions
Seattle
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Historical Seditions is a DIY publishing and distro collective based around so-called Seattle. We create and translate a number of original zines, often with a radical or marginalized history focus. We also distro a wide range of artsy and queer zines from our wider circle of friends. We have recently started releasing DIY-bound books as well, including radical reprints and an original history volume.

HOMOCATS
Brooklyn
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Created by Brooklyn artist J. Morrison, HOMOCATS is a visual art and zine publication connecting the modern popularity of the feline with social politics. Our mission aims to fight phobias, propose equal rights, combat cultural stereotypes, question social norms, resist Trumpism, and make the world a better place.
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ilfant press
Tacoma
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Lisa Hasegawa has been creating artists books and prints under the imprint ilfant press for over 25 years. Many of these works explore personal experiences the reader can identify with, while others are explorations of visual texture and play. Print methods include letterpress, digital, silkscreen, and offset. All editions are small and bound by hand.

Immature Editions
Gainesville, FL / NYC
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Immature Editions is a collaboration with artists Clayton Skidmore and Paul Shortt that focuses on artist made books and editions that address childhood and adulthood with play, wonder and immaturity. Both artists work with a mixture of digital printing, Risograph printing and laser cutters to create unique books and editions.

inner loop press
Philadelphia
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inner loop press is a risograph press located in Philadelphia. Operated by Tanya Brassie, it publishes zines, artists’ books and posters touching upon all sorts of topics -- from pollution to technology to daily life -- thought to be interesting and relevant to the modern reader!

Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
portland
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Justseeds is a group of artists and printmakers who collaborate with social movements. For nearly twenty years we've been producing zines, books and portfolios of prints on political, social environmental and personal topics, and at the place where all of those concerns meet.

Leobardo Bañuelos Jr
Seattle
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Banuelos is a Seattle-based artist specializing in self-published photo books and zines. His work is provocative and intimate with sprinkles of humor throughout.

Living Room Press
Seattle
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Living Room Press is a small Risograph publisher focused on publishing comics and nature from artists in the Pacific Northwest.

LURCH Zine
Portland
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LURCH is a Portland-based, full-color print magazine focused on graphic design, visual art, and writing. We lurch you <3
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Maggie Minor
Norwich
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I make artist books and zines that explore warping and inaccurate recall of place. I create atmospheric imagery that captures disintegrating memories and explores the quiet spaces in between them. In addition, I make quarterly publication called Maggie’s House. Each issue is a collaboration between me, McKenna Kellner, and other friends. The publication contains art, poetry, prose, games, and more! Each issue is designed, printed, and bound by me in Vermont, sent to our readers by mail.

MishMash
Brooklyn
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MishMash is a small Brooklyn-based risograph press centering Latinx, BIPOC, and neurodivergent voices through the art and design practice of Michelle Hernandez Vega and collaborations with other invited artists. I approach printing as playful record-keeping and resistance; preserving curiosities and personal myth while rejecting rigid focus. Long live nonsense! Play over product. Support your fellow misfits.

Monograph Bookworks
Portland
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We are an art bookstore that offers new, used and rare art books and related ephemera, artists' books, prints, exhibition documents, and counterculture, queer, punk and radical material. Heading into our 15th year, we have exhibited at over 20 art book fairs and for the Vancouver (BC) Art Book Fair in 2016 we produced an exhibition on Canadian conceptual artists' ephemera from the 1960s-'70s at the Vancouver Art Gallery. We are not a publisher but actively collect and present rare and unusual art books, archives of artists' documents and ephemera, and original art, primarily from the 20th Century.

National Monument Press
Oakland
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National Monument Press is a publishing project by Zach Clark, located in Oakland California, focused on supporting uniquely American stories through small edition artist books, zines, printed ephemera, and curatorial projects, completed largely through collaboration with other artists.

NEOGLYPHIC MEDIA
Bellingham
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NEOGLYPHIC MEDIA is a publisher of idiosyncratic visual media at the intersection of art and comics, between the gallery and the pulp bins. With one foot in the detritus piles of history and another outstretched into the unknown.

NEUE DAYS
Vancouver
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NEUE DAYS is a collective based in Vancouver, Canada with a focus on independent publishing practices through creating handmade prints, zines and books. Working closely with local Vancouver-based print studios, we experiment with different materials, forms, and print processes, including digital printing, risography, and printmaking. We are continually inspired by moments of the everyday and seek to express our curiosity and wonder of the world through sharing anecdotes about our lives.

NIGHTED
Eureka
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NIGHTED (est. 2012) is a photo zine and book publishing house that shows you the things that happen when the world’s not watching.

Now place 此間
San Francisco
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Now Place is an artist-run bookstore, risograph print studio, and independent publishing space in San Francisco’s Chinatown. We focus on small-run publications, zines, and artist books, fostering a community where printing, storytelling, and gathering intersect. Through exhibitions, workshops, and events, we support emerging artists and explore publishing as a living, social practice.

Outlet PDX
Portland
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Outlet is a risograph press and community print shop in Portland, Oregon run by Kate Bingaman-Burt and Leland Vaughan. We print stuff, host workshops, make zines, facilitate pop-ups and other events, and help creatives in our community learn the joys of riso and how to apply it to their work. We love to explore all the things that print can be and the impact it can have on the world!

Paper Press Punch
Seattle
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Paper Press Punch is a Risograph print and book studio run by artist couple Jessica Hoffman and Justin Quinlan, located in Georgetown. We offer artists of all ages the opportunity to learn all about the Riso through workshops, open studio hours, and Zine of the Month Club. We collaborate with artists and local organizations to produce unique books and prints. Jessica comes from a photographic, book arts, and printmaking background. Justin studied painting at MICA and draws comics with his son.

Pearl Slug Studio
New Haven
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Pearl Slug Studio is an independent publishing house. Rooted in the East Asian and Global South context, currently based in New York, Melbourne, Japan and Shanghai. Founded in 2020 by Guan Shaoshuang, Vanilla Chi, Mao Zhe and You Liang, Focusing on the visual arts and simplified Chinese writing, reflects on today's art historical, sociological, and aesthetic concepts.

Pencil Urchin Press
Kailua Kona
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Pencil Urchin Press (PUP) is a Risograph and Screen-printing print shop & publisher based in Kailua Kona Hawai'i. Founded and operated by Devyn Park & Sarah Week, Pencil Urchin Press aims to be a resource for artists and creatives in based in Hawai'i and beyond. In addition to publishing their own work, Park & Week have published multiple artist's works through PUP's artist in residence program, and print-on-demand service.

pocket press
Portland
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pocket press is a duo of two Portland based artists makes soft and poetic zines & short books with illustration work and photography, mostly riso and letterpress printed, mostly about sweet or savory moments of daily life, and the poetics of being a body in this strange world.

press_esc
Seattle
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Press Esc is a deliberate escape—a rebellion against the endless loop of work and expectations. We are four designers united by a shared drive to create work that is anything but ordinary. We explore niche topics and everyday experiences, transforming them into creative projects that invite readers to pause and engage more deeply with the world around them. Offline and offbeat, we create without rules—embracing the absurd and the unknown.

Push/Pull Press
Seattle
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Push/Pull Press is proud to publish the works of Push/Pull's members and selected guests in a diverse catalogue of books and zines. You'll find everything from scientific illustration guides to autobiographical comics to esoteric poetry. Push/Pull is also a physical art space open every day in Ballard with an eccentric collection of zines and books from indie publishers and artists across the glob

Riso Geist
Salt Lake City
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Riso Geist is Salt Lake City's flagship riso studio and creative workshop, producing vibrant and unique prints, zines, and apparel for vibrant and unique personalities. In addition to educating and guiding artists interested in riso, we also have published the work of illustrators, comic artists, and poets in our community.

Robert Baxter
Minneapolis
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Robert Baxter makes small books—he practices as a public academic, independent publisher, and arts organizer. His own work focuses on access to resources and navigating information—his collaborations with friends share collective research, projects, and histories.

Saori Hata
Morrisville
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Saori Hata is a Japanese artist working with illustration, painting, and artist books. Since 2023, she has been publishing and self-distributing artist books that explore family, memory, and social themes through photography, printmaking, and drawing. After relocating from Tokyo to North Carolina, she has actively participated in art book fairs across North America and Asia, presenting both book works and printed editions.

Sarah-Lee Chun
Honolulu
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Sarah-Lee (she/her) is a self-taught artist who aspires to create experimental, one-of-a-kind, handmade artist books. Her work features abstract paintings on paper that she assembles with simple binding. Each page is improvised, driven by her curiosity and desire for novelty. She enjoys the ambiguity of visual abstraction combined with the linear form of a book and invites viewers to discover a narrative.

Secret Room Press
Portland
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Secret Room Press is a comics & art publisher and active risograph print studio in Portland, Oregon. Since 2019, they have published 20+ books, including the 2023 Ignatz-nominated Live Rock Part 1: Aquarium Life, by Ross Jackson, and organized over a dozen art shows. They publish work that makes them excited about life on earth. Secret Room is also a small press bookshop & gallery in Portland, Oregon specializing in visual culture. You can see their work at SecretRoomPress.com.

Seltzer Press
Portland
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Seltzer is a Portland based micro-press owned and operated by graphic designer, printmaker, and book artist Miranda Field-Martin. Our goal is to offer a place for local artists, designers, and creatives of all kinds to publish their work, as well as foster an affection for printed matter in our readers. We risograph print all our books and zines and bind them with a needle and thread.

Siempre Snack Time
Seattle
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Snack Time is a container for art pop ups, community gatherings, and small batch zine and comic publishing.

Slow Nights Studio
Seattle
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Sming Sming Books
Saratoga
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Sming Sming Books is the publishing studio of artist Vivian Sming, experimenting with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive. Formed in 2017, the studio designs and publishes a wide range of artists’ books, zines, and editions in close collaboration with artists whose works and ideas inform design, material, and printing choices.

Soft Spots Riso
Dallas
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Soft Spots Riso is a Dallas-based Risograph press dedicated to fostering creativity, collaboration, and accessibility in independent printmaking and publishing. Founded in 2022 by artists Kristin Wright and Gino Dal Cin, Soft Spots provides community access to Risograph printing, workshops, and resources to support local artists in experimenting with zine and bookmaking.

Space Type
Brooklyn
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Space Type is a Brooklyn-based type foundry, design studio and risograph press producing zines, prints, comics, and greeting cards. Run by Lynne Yun (Korean-American) and Kevin Yeh (Chinese-Burmese-American), our work highlights typographic education, rich ethnic backgrounds, and vibrant illustrations inspired by fantasy flora and fauna that bring joy and whimsy to the spaces they inhabit.

Studio Yue
Paris
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STUDIO YUE is an independent art studio founded in 2017. The studio explores both self-edition books and contemporary glass art. Focus on themes such as giants, childhood, urban space, memory, and the subconscious, STUDIO YUE collaborates with local print and media workshop to experiment with the future of book art. It regularly participates in art exhibitions and book fairs Europe and China, and its publications are featured in galleries and museums.

Sumin Hwang
Brooklyn
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My work explores Korean anti-colonial resistance, inter-species relating, queer performance cultures, and transgressive archival practices through non-institutional programming/publishing. Producing intentionally small and hand-made editions, I embrace how these slow modes of production resist capitalist production acceleration and waste. Participating in independent publishing networks (such as book fairs) I seek to establish the artist book as a site of (what Samuel Delany defines as) contact.

Taxonomy Press
Detroit
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Taxonomy Press is a risograph micropress based in Detroit founded by artist-publisher Rachel Hays. We print the quarterly Floral Observer, a seasonal newspaper about interacting with nature as well as other zines, chapbooks and prints that catalog the details of our lived experiences.

te editions
New York / Beijing
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te editions is a curatorial, editorial, and publishing collective operating in New York and Beijing, dedicated to exploring the intersection of art and the humanities. We examine historical and contemporary social landscapes through a diversified and microscopic lens, focusing on how cultures encounter, collapse, and transform each other within global cultural flows.

The Corners of Their Mouth Press
Seattle
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The Corners of Their Mouth Press is a two-person team who focuses on art- and research-focused zines about queerness, food, nature, and Midwestern ephemera. Elan Clement Robinson is a graphic designer and artist who creates zines using risograph, copper-plate etching, and comics. L.M. Zoller is a writer and who incorporates collage into their zines. Their work includes the series The Queer Language of Flowers, The Corners of Their Mouth: A Queer Food Zine, and Midwest Transplant Presents.

Track and Field
Austin / Washington DC
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Track and Field is a collaborative publishing initiative from Marc Choi and Dimitry Tetin, graphic designers and educators from Washington, D.C. and Austin, respectively. As first-generation immigrants (South Korea and South Ukraine), Marc and Dimitry are interested in exploring the relationships among personal, public and geographic histories within the popular American imagination.

University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design
Seattle
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Art Students from University of Washington will share their recent publications ranging from photography books, graphic novels, screen printed publications, activist zines to manifestos.

Vivian Li
Seattle
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Vivan is a comics artist based in Seattle. She thinks everything would make a great zine, whether it’s cooking Chinese food, a guide to Seattle’s buses, or a story about a frog. As a founding member of the Seattle Printers’ Guild, she has organized free workshops to teach the community different printmaking techniques. She has also helped many people create their first zine, through zine making classes in Seattle Public Schools, workshops in local libraries, or on a video call with her mom.

Wave Books
Seattle
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Winter texts
Port Townsend
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We publish odd and meaningful books—of many genres—in artful, iterative, and affordable editions. We make physical books that sit somewhere between trade-paperbacks and art-books. All are made with rigorous editorial and design standards. We believe that "literature" is broad and changing category that is ever extending to-and-from the written word and lived experience. We intend for each of our books to add value to the body of world-literature and to the life of each particular reader.
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WORK/PLAY
Glen Carbon
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WORK/PLAY is an interdisciplinary studio based in Illinois founded by Danielle and Kevin McCoy. Their studio collaborates with forward-thinking artists to produce objects and artists’ books oftentimes exploring themes such as cultural memory, identity, history, erasure, and redaction. They are keen to infuse quality and intentionality into their offerings while fostering a close-knit ecosystem.

Zine Hug
Seattle
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Zine Hug is a micropress and the studio art practice of Alex Barsky and Zack Lydon. We use a Risograph MZ990 to publish comics and zines and we've been experimenting with risograph printed animation since 2019.

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